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TooLate, I trawled through every newspaper entry mentioning Lorenzo Field, and there were no patent applications in connection with cameras and very little other info online. I can't spot anything on Birmingham Archives catalogue, but be aware that only 20% of the collections have been added to...

From the newspapers: In 1881, 1882 and 1884 Lorenzo Field registered several patents for improvements to folding chairs, and in 1881 registered a patent for graters of salt, bread , nutmegs, ginger & other materials. In 1895 this appeared:- You can check the latter for free on the London...

I'm not generally very keen on child stars, vocal or instrumental, but Amira gave a very mature performance especially considering her age. Plus the fact that I don't think Puccini wrote a duff tune in his life and this one always goes down well. She was ten years old at the time of this...

Alberta, After a couple of years of regularly going to and fro between the UK and Pennsylvania. I quickly learned not smile or crack jokes as the people working for Immigration have absolutely no sense of humour. I also found that it was best to answer yes or no whenever you could. Including...

Nice to get back to a bit of history again, and useful lists of names if encountered on parish registers or elsewhere. Maurice :cool:

We had our second Pfizer jabs here in Crete. One doctor & two nurses running the process slowly but carefully. My partner has diabetes, so a canula was inserted into the back of her hand beforehand so that in the event of problems, drugs could be rapidly administered. She had to wait for 30...

Some live in hope, Mike! :) Maurice :cool:

Keiron, That's a bit like the airlines going to States with the forms you had to fill in an hour or so before your landed. "Are you or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation?". I wonder how many Yes answers they got to that? :) Maurice :cool:

Yes, my Dad used to say "Strewth", as do many Australians. In fact, that seemed to be his favourite exclamation of surprise. But I never heard either of my parents swear, yet Dad was in the Army during WW1. The general place where most of use encountered it. Maurice :cool:

Ha ha, Nico, Mk I & Mark II, but I doubt that would have fallen on fertile ground. :) Maurice :cool:

Never heard that expression before, Nico. Maurice :cool:

"Round the bend" was quite a few years before "Round the Horn", Nico. I did have quite a few them on reel-to-reel tape, but I don't think that they came with me to Crete. Maurice :cool:

Anything that helps to visually / photographically map Brum, Steve, can't be bad news, whatever it is. It is all part of history and thanks for taking the time to do it, then and now Maurice :cool:

Of course, Alan. Maurice :cool:

"Up the pole" was also the name of a radio comedy show with Jummy Jewell & Ben Warris in the 1950s. "Round the bend", meaning roughly the same, was also a radio show with Michael Bentine a few years later. Maurice :cool:

The day after me, Eric, also Pfizer. :) Maurice :cool:

Mort, My uncle bought one, put a piece of metal to stop the thing being put into reverse, and then was told he could quite legally drive it on his motorcycle licence, which he did until he eventually passed his car driving test. This was late 1950s. Maurice :cool:

Viv, It was called primrose even in 1960. Our old cottage in Kings Heath had walls that were dark brown boards up to about 4 feet high. A friend of my mother decided it needed a makeover and said that it we stripped the boards off, he would make good any holes with some plaster and then paint...

In a few years we will forget what a cinema looks like, who'd have thought it? Here in my area of Crete, one cinema lies empty, but part of the building is the local offices of the Greek Orthodox Church, who own the building so it won't be demolished. The other has the Council Chamber sitting...

Bob, That figures with surrunding towns of Nazareth & Bethlehem! Spent most of my time over there in Wysox, 20 miles south of the upstate NY border - lovely country up there. Have driven past Allenstown on my way to Philly a couple of times, but much prefer the rural north. Maurice :cool: